The place was so remote that they found it after a few seasons. The police report noted: after a possible argument, the wife shot her husband. The murder weapon has the wife's fingerprints on it. The victim was found in the field, impaledon a stake. Judging by his position, it looks like he struggled for a while. She was wearing a rented and unreturned Halloween sunflower costume. It was only when the crows had pecked him to the bone, state aggravated by the typical mistral of the area, that a wandering tourist with a passion for lavender reported the incident.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In May 2023, the group has 11,260 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
